Monday, October 6, 2014

Katy Perry Predicts Ole Miss Win

Katy Perry has had number one albums and songs before, but until
Saturday, she has never been what some might call a great sports
prognosticator. Or, a even a mediocre sports prognosticator. However,
when the I Kissed a Girl singer appeared on College GameDay
on Saturday, October 4, and accurately predicted that Ole Miss would
triumph over Alabama, Katy Perry became one while serving as a guest
picker on the ESPN segment at the very first college football game she
has ever attended.

Katy Perry, 30, was not as successful though, with her prediction
that Oklahoma would beat TCU. Oklahoma lost that game, 37-33. She chose
Oklahoma because she is, apparently, attracted to quarterback Trevor
Knight of the Sooners, asking him to “call her.”
An article in USA Today called Katy Perry’s stint as a
sports prognosticator “awkward” and “ridiculous.” Yes, she threw a
corndog at one of the cameras and yanked off a mascot head from ESPN
sports broadcaster Lee Corso’s head, but…she is Katy freakin’ Perry,
after all, and if she did not act at least somewhat outrageous as a
guest picker, she would have gone against her character.
Whether entirely by luck or through her mystical powers at predicting
the outcome of some football games…nobody is perfect, not even Katy
Perry…she predicted the upset of Ole Miss over Alabama. Ole Miss won the
game on Saturday, 23-17.
The singer of Teenage Dream and Roar celebrated her
accurate prediction of the upset by going to a local bar in Oxford,
Mississippi, called Funkys. While she was there, an intrepid fan, Nick
Rutherford — well done, Nick — shot a Vine of her pounding down a beer
and diving off of a bar.
While Perry is not likely to quit her lucrative career as a singer to
become an ESPN sports broadcaster, she became one for one brief shining
moment on College GameDay on Saturday, October 4. After that,
she joined in the festivities of the revelers in Oxford, Mississippi, by
slamming back a brewski or two, or…more. Katy Perry might have lost
some fans in Alabama, but she probably gained quite a few in
Mississippi.
Maybe some of Katy Perry’s fans thought it was odd that the Firework
singer voiced Moe Szyslak’s girlfriend in a 2010 episode of The
Simpsons or used her vocal talents to do the character of Smurfette in
the 2011 animated flick, The Smurfs. But, that was then and this is now. Her gig as a guest picker on ESPN’s College GameDay just might qualify as the strangest thing Perry has done yet, if one does not count her brief marriage to Russell Brand.
After Saturday and Katy Perry’s accurate prediction of Ole Miss
beating Alabama in an upset, college football might not ever be the same
again. It might not qualify as a sign of the coming Apocalypse, but it
ranks up there. To be fair to Ole Miss, the team is much improved this
year and could end up being one of the best teams in the SEC. Still,
their victory over Alabama was not one that many people outside of
Mississippi would have predicted.
Written By Douglas Cobb
Sources:USA TodayDeadspinBleacher ReportCBSSports.com